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Indian Express
3 days ago
- Business
- Indian Express
IIM Ahmedabad welcomes 2025-27 PGP batch of 414 students
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) on Wednesday welcomed its 62nd batch of its two-year full-time Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management. The batch has 414 students and half of them have engineering backgrounds, the institute stated. The 2025-27 batch has 30.6 per cent female and the rest male, with students having an average work experience of 25 months. While 27 per cent are freshers, the rest have worked in various sectors, according to the institute. A total of 460 students joined two of its flagship programmes on Wednesday, including 46 students who were inducted into the 26th batch of the two-year full time PGP in Food and Agribusiness Management (PGP-FABM). Highlighting the diversity of the new cohort, IIMA Director Prof Bharat Bhasker encouraged the students to adopt a spirit of cooperation and emphasised the importance of peer learning. Students are from a variety of backgrounds, including commerce, liberal arts disciplines, engineering, chartered accountancy, company secretaryship. Out of the 46 students in the PGP-FABM batch of 2025-27, 45.65 per cent are female, while the rest are male. All the students in the cohort come from agriculture and allied agriculture disciplines. The students have an average work experience of 20 months, with 40 per cent of them having work experiences. The average age of students is 23 for both the said programmes. A significant number of differently abled students have joined the PGP class of 2025-2027, IIMA also stated. Delivering an inaugural address on Wednesday, Prof Bhasker said, 'You have arrived at a platform that has been producing leaders for six decades. During this time, IIMA has not only produced leaders, but also the methodology that enables this transformation in people.' 'You are among the select few who have made it here from the lakhs of applications we received, and are now part of programmes, which have been consistently ranked number one in the country and are among the top in the world. Over the years, we have continuously evolved these programmes to ensure that those graduating from this Institute represent the very best the country has to offer,' he also said. Encouraging the students to make the most of their time at the institute, Diptesh Ghosh, Dean (Programmes), IIMA, said: 'This place is demanding, and many of the courses will be new to you. Our motto — 'Development through the application of knowledge' — reflects our belief that management is an applied discipline. What matters more than knowing facts is your ability to apply them in practice. This comes alive in our classrooms through real-world business scenarios that require you to make decisions, which is the essence of the case methodology that IIMA is renowned for.' Professor Ankur Sinha, Chairperson, PGP, emphasised the importance of human values and encouraged the students to uphold them.
Time of India
29-04-2025
- Science
- Time of India
State govt plans to revive Vedic-era Dhristavati River
Jaipur: Officials of water resources department (WRD) said Tuesday that the state govt is carrying out a study on how to revive Dhristavati River , a paleo channel in the state that is assumed to be part of the Vedic-era Saraswati River system . A team from Haryana Sarasvati Heritage Development Board (HSHDB) is in Jaipur to discuss this project. Confirming this, Bhuvan Bhasker, chief engineer of WRD, said, "We are sure that there exists a paleo channel known as Dhristavati River. But we cannot officially confirm whether it was part of the Vedic Saraswati River system. We are carrying out a study to see if we can revive the channel." WRD officials are relying on some research works of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Central Ground Water Department, and IIT BHU to study the mythical Saraswati River basin. "The govt of Rajasthan has signed an MoU with the City of Aarhus in Denmark to rejuvenate rivers in the state. The City of Aarhus has implemented a few projects related to paleo channels. We will take advice from their engineers who worked on those projects," said Bhasker. HSHDB vice-chairman Dhuman Singh Kirmach stated that the Haryana board has enabled water flow along nearly 400 km of the Saraswati riverbed during the monsoon season, completing the first phase of Saraswati River rejuvenation project. The rejuvenation was done based on a map drafted by ISRO of paleo channels of Saraswati River, he said. "During the flood of 2023, when we opened the gates of Sirsa Barrage, the water overflowed in the same direction as mentioned on the ISRO map. So, we approached the Rajasthan govt to link the Sirsa Head of the barrage with the Luni River," Krimach said.
Express Tribune
21-03-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Bhasker condemns latest Gaza attack
In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) recently, Indian actor Swara Bhasker condemned Israel for breaking the ceasefire agreement set under the Biden administration and resuming the airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in Palestine. "We live in a world where it's apparently acceptable to slaughter 400 children in one day because they are Palestinian. What an utterly despicable act of terrorism. I will say it again and again: Israel is the terrorist," Bhasker wrote. This isn't the first time that the Veere Di Wedding actor has expressed empathy for Palestine. In February last year, she quoted a clip of a father holding her daughter after surviving bombardment. "Everyday, I hug my baby girl a little tighter and pray I never experience the helplessness of Palestinian parents," she wrote. Back in October 2023, she pointed out the hypocrisy of social media users denouncing Hamas and overlooking the atrocities committed by Israel over decades. "If you have not felt shock and horror at Israel's unending atrocities on Palestinians, the forcible occupation of Palestinian homes, the forced evictions, the bigotry and violence of settler Israelis, the murder of Palestinian children and teenagers, the decades long blockade and bombing of Gaza and civilians in Gaza, including bombing of schools and hospitals (not to mention the apartheid and occupation), then I'm afraid your shock and horror at Hamas' attacks on Israel seem a bit hypocritical." Bhasker's stance has remained consistent in the past, even before the Hamas-led attack in October 2023. Back in 2021, she wrote, "Israel is an apartheid state. Israel is a terrorist state. Enough said. Free Palestine." In another tweet around the same time, she wrote, "The cause of Palestine and justice for Palestinians isn't an Islamic cause, at least it shouldn't solely be that. It is first and foremost an anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and, anti-apartheid cause and that's why it should concern us all, even non-Muslims."
